Simcoe.com By Laurie Watt Parents: Board needs to lose shields March 27 2012 BARRIE – The Simcoe County District School Board must stop its ‘dark-ages’ way of treating students with challenging behaviours and begin respecting the Ontario Human Rights Code, says its Special Education Advisory Committee chairperson. Angie Bridekirk says her committee is calling on [...]
JK/SK cap detemined by MOE
March 27, 2012
A new B memo was issued by the MOE on Feb. 29, 2012 dealing with the issue of class caps in the JK and SK programs across the province. This would standardize class sizes across the province. B- 04 2012 Table A
Books to Digital Texts the New Direction
June 28, 2011
First text books by school text-book publishers are now going digital only. This follows years of a demographic downward slope in student numbers, coupled with two years of cuts [in Ontario] in text-book funding. US sales of K-12 textbooks dropped 16.9% in 2011, year over year. In this environment McGraw-Hill launched its first all-digital, cloud-based [...]
Year 3 Roll-out List SCDSB FDK
May 29, 2011
Early Learning Program will be added to the following schools for year 3 of the roll out MOE Site Selection Conformation March 2, 2011 ( download full memo and list for Ontario) Simcoe County District School Board • Allandale Heights Public School • Ardagh Bluffs Public School • Brechin Public School • Connaught Public School [...]
Where is the money for FDK – after the election?
May 29, 2011
Capital funding announcements for the Full Day Kindergarten program, were announced in April in SB-09, for the upcoming budget year. It looks good, it sounds good, but does it fall short? Is this all a bit of smoke and mirrors? Where will the money be for the expensive renovations needed next year, after the election? [...]
Ready Set JK ( incl. video)
February 28, 2011
The SCDSB is currently registering students for the Junior & Senior Kindergarten programs for fall 2011. Children must be 4 years of age by Dec. 31, 2011 to enter JK. There are currently 88 public elementary schools throughout the county (map pdf) . A school search by area is available on the SCDSB website [...]
Open House – Extended French Program
December 23, 2010
The Extended French program iis available in 9 elementary schools with the SCDSB. The program starts at the grade 5 level. January open house meetings will be held at each of the program locations listeed below. Admiral Collingwood ES – Thursday, January 6 – 6:00 PM Alliston Union PS – Thursday, January 13 – 7:00 [...]
New Financial Literacy Curriculum on the way
November 24, 2010
Update: Toronto Star : Feb. 28, 2011 Province Aims to to teach kids hot to manage money Nov.24, 2010 Original Post The world has been reeling since 2008 from a variety of economic issues. Fundamental to all the pieces around stock markets, mortgages, and financial instruments is the simple basic understanding of risk and [...]
Special Education Report SCDSB 2010-11
October 12, 2010
Special Education plans have been replaced by Special Education Reports for 2010-11. Special Ed Report 2010-2011 – (pdf) SCDSB Identified Students ( see page 10)
Opening French classrooms a hit
September 20, 2010
The story “A classroom makes all the difference for teacher” (Simcoe.com) on the subject of opening previously closed classrooms, is probably one of my favourites for 2010. Sometimes change take time to grab-hold and effects to be seen. Excellent initiatives in differentiated learning that were started over the last three years, are just now showing [...]
